Hi.

So, yesterday, I gave up the chance to go to the football to go see The Dark Knight. Now, I was expecting the film to be a let-down because I've been debating whether critics were applauding it because Heath Ledger died. But I was wrong. Jack Nicholson had been my favourite Joker ever, but with the Joker has always been some camp. In Batman (with Nicholson as The Joker), The Joker was more camp then creepy. In The Dark Knight, Ledger did such a good job as The Joker, I found it too be more creepy than camp (which, I found absolutely fantastic). I found some plot twists to be quite surprising and some were left very open. I loved the film but the downsides of making a film that great do result in a few odd plotholes and I definitely did not like the fact it ran for 2 hours, 30 mins. It was too long and the plot was slightly inconsistent with the time, going too slow, then too fast. Now saying the parts I did really enjoy, The Joker (and the "surprising" other villian) were perfect villians. I don't know what Nolan was smoking when he put the Scarecrow as the villian in the first film. I mean, Cillian Murphy is great but the Scarecrow? Please, I would've preferred The Riddler or Poison Ivy, they would've made it more interesting. The actors/actresses were great. Heath Ledger was extraordinary, so was Christian Bale, Aaron Eckhart and Michael Caine. As for Maggie Gyllenhaal, I'm glad they got someone that looked and acted so similar to Katie Holmes that you could barely notice the difference. Apart from Ledger, the best actor in the film would have to be Morgan Freeman, despite him (probably) having the least screen time out of all the main cast. I won't givemy favourite/least favourtie parts as it probably would spoil this great film.

I would give the movie around about a 9.5/10. Which, is hard because I could easily rate it as a 10. It was so great, with just a few little things that held it back.

The next movie I aim to see is The X Files: I Want To Believe. It comes out on Thursday.

I also bought Gilmore Girls (season 5) on DVD with some birthday money. My teacher and I have a deal that if I watch Gilmore Girls, she'll watch Buffy. I watched a few episodes, liked it so much and then decided to buy one of the DVD's.

-Alex-

Just wanted to let you know I'm alive. Not completely, but alive enough. I'm not on here much anymore though, I visit the Buffy forums, Australian forum and some blogs. Then I log off. Speaking of the Buffy forum, a shout out to the LPW folk, especially Isa who won. LPW is awesome. It's pretty fun and you learn a lot about the other people.

I've just got into a few shows as I decided to buy a few first season of shows with my birthday money. They include Firefly, One Tree Hill, Veronica Mars, Dexter and Weeds. Firefly is awesome, has that Whedon-magic. If it ran for longer, it would easily be better than Buffy and Angel. OTH is good, really enjoyable, but I still prefer The OC. Veronica Mars is brilliant, it is smart and funny and has the hottest girl on TV at the moment - Kristen Bell. Also has Amanda Seyfried, she's so cool. I have three episodes to go of Dexter, but I'm liking it. It took a few eps to get me into it, but when you are into it, it is sheer genius. Weeds is possibly the funniest show I've ever seen. I love it and am wanting to buy the second season soon.

As far as TV goes, Gossip Girl ends next week. Michelle Trachtenberg is fantastic as Georgina Sparks, but she is such a b!tch. I have been watching Jeopardy a lot lately. I don't get many answers (you hav to be apart of freakin Mensa to be able to answer those) but I get a fair few. I got two Shakespeare questions the other day, I was impressed with myself !

I better go,
-Alex-

P.S. I am currently participating in Joey's Movie Meltdown Trivia game. It's so frakking hard, but I am happy coz Joey has that uncunny ability to make games and activities really exciting for users.

And thank you everyone for your birthday wishes. Thanks!

Hey.

Thanks for the comments on the last blog . Made me feel better. It's my birthday on Saturday. I'm turning 15. I won't be on here much until then so I s'pose I'd blog now . Oh and it was my 3 year anniversary on June 10th as well.

Thanks for the concern,

-Alex-

Hi.

I went interstate yesterday for family stuff. We (my sister, her boyfriend and I) caught a plane at 6:30am in the morning and returned at 11:30pm the same day. This wasn't planned. It was actually organized 10:00pm the previous day. But I'm back now. It felt weird to just 'go' interstate for just one day without planning it

Oh, and if anyone has Facebook, PM me or search for my name (you know my first name and, with the exception of the 'a' and 'p', my last name is in my username). If you don't haveone, I advise you to get one. It's fun and you don't have to check it every second of every day.

Hope to see you on there,

-Alex-